Associate Director

About the Job:

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Associate Director to join the Health Safety and Hygiene team in Jumeirah Emirates Towers. Your key responsibilities will include:

• Developing, maintaining and monitoring Health, Safety and Environment Policies, Procedures and Processes
• Co-coordinating and overseeing the implementation of Health, Safety and Environment within SBU
• Conducting Risk Assessment periodically and ensure identified risks are managed and controlled
• Reviewing and approving Method Statements and Risk Assessments of all contractors awarded certain tasks at the SBU, these could be engineering contractors and / or events contractors, to remain in compliance to Jumeriah Contractor management system and permit to work systems.
• Being able to chair the monthly Health Safety and Environment Group meeting and raise and deliberate with Committee on any Health Safety and Environment issues
• Monitoring trends and recommend pro-active action plans to remedy potential problems
• Facilitating, investigating and analyzing incidents and making sure lessons learned are shared and communicated to the concerned parties.
• Managing and coordinating all Occupational Health and Safety & hygiene related matters
• Managing and coordinating all Fire, Life Safety related matters in conjunction with Security & Technical Support departments
• Managing and investigating all alleged food poisoning cases.
• Assisting the Food and Beverage team in preparation for HACCP promotion and implementation.
• Monitoring and ensuring that all Health and Safety related equipment are compliant and have the required maintenance and third-party certification
• Carrying out Health Safety and Environment training such as Near Miss, Risk Assessment, Environmental awareness, etc. for all the colleagues
• Managing and coordinating third party visits related to Health Safety and Environment. This will include visits by the authorities, authorized insurance companies and consultants.
• Managing and ensuring the Health Safety and Environment yearly strategy is implemented by all departments.
• Assisting the internal stakeholders in their liaison with customers, clients and partners regarding their HSE related queries.
• Conducting daily inspections and surprise visits to various areas of the business – including the front of the house and the heart of the house – and especially sensitive and special attention areas.
• Assist in compiling and updating over business’ Risk Register (ERM) covering all departments
• Support the SBU by coordinating the Enterprise Risk Registers are reviewed quarterly by the risk owners and risk portal is duly updated.
• Ensure monthly ESG reporting is carried out (HSE related), via the ESG reporting platform.
• Organize free Health check and Environmental campaigns for colleagues in coordination with group medical and SBU paramedics.

About you:

In order to be considered for this role you will have at least Minimum of 3 - 5 years’ experience in HSE Management.

• College Graduate – Essential
• College Graduate Science / Engineering background desirable
• Diploma/ Certificate in Occupational Safety and Health or Environment (NEBOSH and / or IOSH)
• Advanced studies or master’s degree
• Food Safety level 4 – Certification